Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with...
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for chess. Slight modifications are made by some national organizations for their own purposes. There are variations of the rules for fast chess, correspondence...
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The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025 by Chess.com. The regular tour started on 26 January 2025 and...
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Champions Chess Tour (CCT) is a fast online chess tournament circuit organized by Chess.com. Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour 2020 Champions Chess Tour 2021...
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The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...
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patent 4,884,255 for Fischer's clock Online Chess Clock / Chess Timer Example, used for Fast Chess Online chess clock that implements Fischer and Bronstein...
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a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
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blitz chess (three to ten minutes), popular online. Non-classical chess is sometimes referred to as fast chess. Time is controlled using a chess clock...
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A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...
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Chess Championships are a family of annual blitz chess tournaments held and hosted by the online chess platform Chess.com. The reigning Speed Chess Champion...
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discovered check (and, rarely, checkmate) by another piece, however. In fast chess, depending on the rules in effect, placing or leaving one's king in check...
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Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of...
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The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com. The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on...
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add difficulty (relating to the intensity of "twitching" required). Fast chess, chess played with short time limits between moves, is an example of adding...
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Mechanical Turk (redirect from Automaton Chess Player)
as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine...
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Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers...
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Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...
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of chess played, the closeness of the contest and the number of world top 10 or 'big reputation' players who took part, and the time control (no fast chess...
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A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...
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A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. They can come in various sizes and shapes, and are usually...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...
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Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...
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Immortal Game (redirect from Immortal game (chess))
The Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky during the London 1851 chess tournament, an event in...
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Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site operates on a freemium...
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The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2023 was a fast chess tournament circuit that was organized in 2023 by Chess.com. The tour started on 6 February 2023 and...
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A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen,...
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Sicilian Defence (redirect from B52 (chess opening))
The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's...
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Réti Opening (redirect from A09 (chess opening))
The Réti Opening is a hypermodern chess opening whose "traditional" or "classic method" begins with the moves: 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 White attacks Black's pawn...
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